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Poster: qlee01 Date: Aug 31, 2014 1:58pm
Forum: web Subject: Download limit Wayback Machine

Hello,

there seems to be a download limit of 100MB to files in the Wayback Machine, is this by purpose or is it a server misconfiguration/bug?

Example:

https://web.archive.org/web/20051202043416/http://www.isri.unlv.edu/downloads/3b.tgz

Download will stop at 100MB and will refuse to continue. Is there another way to access files from the archive? I tried several download managers, wget, different browsers, nothing seems to help.

Best,

Florian

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Poster: Amgine0 Date: Sep 1, 2014 11:19am
Forum: web Subject: Re: Download limit Wayback Machine

There seems to be a 1MB limit on files here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20000621143352/http://www.tdh.state.tx.us/bvs/registra/birthidx/birthidx.htm

Downloads begin properly, then timeout.

$ wget https://web.archive.org/web/20000621143352/http://www.tdh.state.tx.us/bvs/registra/birthidx/birth49g.exe
--2014-09-01 11:05:27-- https://web.archive.org/web/20000621143352/http://www.tdh.state.tx.us/bvs/registra/birthidx/birth49g.exe
Resolving web.archive.org... 207.241.226.190
Connecting to web.archive.org|207.241.226.190|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: /web/20000930024519/http://www.tdh.state.tx.us/bvs/registra/birthidx/birth49g.exe [following]
--2014-09-01 11:05:28-- https://web.archive.org/web/20000930024519/http://www.tdh.state.tx.us/bvs/registra/birthidx/birth49g.exe
Reusing existing connection to web.archive.org:443.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 6588376 (6.3M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: 'birth49g.exe'

15% [=======================> ] 1,048,331 --.-K/s in 65s

2014-09-01 11:06:35 (15.7 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 1048331. Retrying.

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Poster: qlee01 Date: Sep 1, 2014 1:19pm
Forum: web Subject: Re: Download limit Wayback Machine

Okay, same behavior as on the other file.
Maybe the limit is configured by type of file, 1MB for .exe, 100MB for .tgz, maybe some default settings by the used web server.